Mad_Cyril “Duchess” = the fella you’ve been seeing for a few weeks?

Tony from Mitcham.

Cracking bloke!

    JC table confirmed for the big day!

    Looks like I’m heading to a new restaurant tomorrow. Animo. In Sonoma County. Just opened. Basque-style food apparently. A short drive away and in one of the more beautiful parts of the state. Fantastic wines as well. If any of you plebeians ever make it this way, do Sonoma over Napa. Better wine. More mellow. Prettier.


    Smallman1 I’ve had breakfast at The Wolseley and dinner at Brasserie Zedel. Can’t really remember the food tbh but both gorgeous rooms.

    Yep, special places for sure.

    Grant is a huge fan of The Wolseley too.

    Do I need to buy a hat, Ed? Still have one in the wardrobe from the IH debacle. I’m massively out of pocket because you cannot get it together ffs.

    Call me

    The only things required for the JC table are top top bants, a whopping great kitchen sink and the tops to come off as soon as Mongoose gets dropped, that’s it!

      Smallman1 for the JC table are top top bants

      Not that straightforward.

      For example, no-one can deny Amps is a top tabler, but does he have “top top bants?” I’m sure he still has it in his locker somewhere, but nowadays I’d probably say he just has “top bants” or maybe even just “bants”.

      Fortunately for him, there aren’t really any obvious promotion candidates this year.

        Cheating slightly as this is a cloud kitchen, but the food here is blowing my mind: https://www.dumdurrust.com/

        You have to preorder 24 hours in advance so everything is made to perfection and with a whole lotta love.

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          Smallman1

          Mongoose is a good metaphor for English cuisine. Rote and forgettable at its best. Not one person goes to London thinking, “I’m going for the food”. Not one person. That has never happened. The only kitchen sink about most British food is what needs to be thrown in it. And I love my pork pies.

          alistair Absolute shite. Give me your top 5 NYC restaurants and your top 5 London. We can take it from there, Al. Jesus wept.

          bosstrabs For example, no-one can deny Amps is a top tabler, but does he have “top top bants?” I’m sure he still has it in his locker somewhere, but nowadays I’d probably say he just has “top bants” or maybe even just “bants”.

          I don’t recall Amps posting anything that wasn’t regurgitated from twitter, let alone something which could be called “bants”.

          Already looking forward to Hugo’s best man speech.

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            LT42 Naaah. It’s priced well, pretty standard. And what they say feeds four people, easily feeds 6.

            Just had the Aywadhi mutton biryani, chicken tikkas, and Kolkata beet root chops for a glorious Sunday lunch. The meat in the biryani was fall off the bone. Saving the Mutton Haleem, which is insanely good, for dinner.

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              mono-stereo “Testing, testing. Hey Xavier, can you turn up the speakers at the back, I can hear the ruddy A50. Who books a hotel in a place like this?”